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The 208th Commencement was unlike any other in Hamilton’s history. Due to COVID-19, the College held a virtual ceremony celebrating the 497 members of the Class of 2020 and honoring many of the annual traditions on Sunday, May 24.

Field hockey and women's hockey all-American Michaela Giuttari '20 and men's basketball all-American Kena Gilmour '20 received the 2020 Jack B. Riffle Awards as Hamilton College Director of Athletics Jon Hind '80 revealed this year's senior varsity athlete award winners via a live video announcement on Friday, May 22.

Two internships with consumer package goods companies led Torrey Foster ’20 first to his senior thesis topic and now to a job with Cadent Consulting Group, a sales and marketing firm.

Theatre adapts, reflects, and, most importantly, survives. The industry is no stranger to abrupt, closure when the unexpected happens. Shakespeare himself lived through several recurrences of the plague, writing through quarantine restrictions, and imagining the new stories, characters, and worlds that would go on to be celebrated for hundreds of years.

The intersection of Hamilton’s introductory sociology course and the Wellin Museum’s spring exhibition resulted in student visual and audio projects that address social issues in unique ways.

Ben Bardwell ’00 started racing sailboats at age 15, and he didn’t come to it through a yacht club. His dad was a commercial fisherman, and both his parents imparted a love of the ocean to their children.

If the international law seminar had to be taught remotely, which it unexpectedly did, the professor was determined to make the most of it. Turning to his professional connections, he secured three distinguished guests with experience directly related to issues students had studied.

In Visiting Assistant Professor David Perkins' Creative Coding and Origami course, making origami warms students’ minds up to the task of learning new vocabulary for coding.

More than 225 years ago, Clinton residents came together to support Samuel Kirkland’s plan for the children of local Oneida Indians to learn alongside the children of the settlers streaming into the region following the American Revolution.

Eleni Broadwell ’20, the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, is eager to teach English in Taiwan next year. “Taiwan has made great strides in the past few decades to move away from rote learning and make schooling more interactive,” Broadwell said. “There’s a greater emphasis on critical thinking skills and the arts, which I think is wonderful.”